Adobe
Photoshop is capable of making complicated and elaborate masks, but
for using with EasyArt you will only need to make the very simplest
of masks.

For this tutorial use two
of the heads from the Coyote Ugly Movie poster (supplied on the EasyArt
CD)

Note:
The method
used to create this mask illustrates how you will create masks
specifically for the EasyArt"Flesh Mask" and "Line
Draw Mask" routines.

In
Photoshop navigate your way to the Tutorials folder on the EasyArt CD
and double click the file "Mask Tutorial" to open the image of the girls
heads.

Select the
zoom tool, and zoom into the image until it is 100% size.

Tip:
Practice moving
the image around by holding down the space bar on your key board
(the mouse pointer will change to a hand), drag the image around
with
your mouse. Dragging around the image in this way will save you
a lot of time zooming in and out of the image and moving it around
with the side bars.

Go
to the Actions list, scroll down to the blue EasyArt button "Make Flesh
Mask" and click. A message will appear read it and press the stop button..

Note:
You will notice the "Make Flesh Mask" button has turned red, that
means the action has stopped before the routine is finished.

To begin making
the mask select the pen tool from your tool box and start to work your
way around the girls head clicking a series of dots creating a path.

The
closer together your dots are, the more accurate your mask. Continue all
the way around her head with the last click being on the very first dot.

Having
gone all the way around close the path by clicking on the first dot.
Open the "Paths" list (Window > Paths) and click on the small triangle
in the top right corner, scroll down the drop down list and click "Fill
Path".

Note:
If you use the lasso or Polygonal lasso tool to make your selection
you must fill the active selection with black, (Edit > Fill
> 100% black) the mask will then appear purple.

.Click on the arrow again
in the corner of the "Paths" list scroll down and click "Delete Path".
The dotted line has disappeared but the mask remains.

Now click
around the other girls head including her hair and neck, and fill with
the path as before. Remember to drag the image around using the space
bar and mouse button.

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With the two heads masked, next remove the areas around the eyes and the
lips.
Once removed from the mask the eyes and lips will be separated along with
the standard simulated process routine.

The
method for removing areas of the mask is exactly the same as creating
them. With the zoom
tool selected, zoom into one of the eyes (200% zoom) then select the
pen tool again and click a series of dots around the eye as you did
before with the head. Click all the way around one eye and join up the
path by clicking on the first dot again. Click on the arrow in the "Paths"
list and select "Fill Path".
This time in the Fill Path window that appears change the "Use" to "White"
in the Contents section.
Leave everything else as it was before. You can now see the eye area
has just been cleared from
the mask. Click on the arrow again in the "Paths" list and click "delete
path"..

Note:
Using "White" as a fill when working with EasyArt masks,
is like using the eraser tool.

continue
on with the other eye and the lips in the same way. Remember the more
dots the more accurate your mask will be.

With
the mask completed, go back to the Actions list and click the "Make
flesh Mask" button again which is now red.

EasyArt creates a separate
"Flesh Mask" channel, which will be automatically used when you run
one of the add flesh color routines.

.

Tips:
After creating a mask you should always save the image with it's
new mask channel, before you continue any further, so if you have
a problem later, you won't have to make the mask again.

The more dots
the more detail

Always use the
"make mask" routines

Never soften,
blur, feather or anti-alias your masks

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Adding 3 color flesh
tone.

This tutorial will show
you how to create the perfect flesh.
The regular EasyArt simulated process separation routine creates an
excellent flesh but can be difficult to maintain over a large print
run especially if there are large areas of flesh tone.

Photoshop navigate your
way to the Tutorials folder on the EasyArt CD and double click the file
"Coyote Ugly.psd".

Step 1 Preparation(yellow buttons)

This
Coyote Ugly image is very flat and dull and it needs the tonal range improved
and the colors increased. To achieve this go to the EasyArt Actions list
and click on the yellow button "Improve image RGB" this will apply an
automatic levels adjustment add sharpness, color and contrast..

Tip:
The EasyArt action button "Improve Image RGB" will fix
a lot of the problems you get from a standard scanned image, if
you are not comfortable making your own image improvements in
Photoshop, at least try this one button, as it will work well
on most images.

.Before
separating this image you will have to create a flesh mask using the same
method as above only this time include all of the areas of flesh tone
in the image.

Tip:
If you want to bypass making the complete flesh mask you can load
it into the mask channel from the EasyArt CD. Navigate your way
to the tutorials folder and open the file "Coyote Ugly Mask".
When open select all then copy. Then close the mask file. Next
paste the mask into the original coyote ugly image. The full mask
will appear purple. If your mask appears black on the coyote ugly
image it is because you did not start the "Make Flesh Mask"
routine before pasting in.

With
your mask completed click on the "Make Flesh Mask" button again
(which now appears red) to complete the mask masking routine..

Step 2 Separation(blue buttons)

Because
this image is going onto a black shirt, go to the actions list, scroll
down to the blue EasyArt button "Separate for Black shirts" and click.
This is one of the standard EasyArt simulated process separation routines.
The speed of this routine will depend on the speed of your computer. When
the separation is finished the message "Routine Complete" will appear,
press continue to finish.

After
separating go to the channels list to see the 11 spot color channels EasyArt
has automatically created.
Without making any changes to these separations go to the actions list
again and click on the blue EasyArt button "Add 3 color flesh".
EasyArt will automatically use the flesh mask you made earlier to create
3 additional channels, a light flesh, medium flesh and dark flesh. When
the routine has completed press continue.

Step
3 Adjustment(blue buttons)

In the channels list, you
will see there are now 3 extra flesh channels. To reduce this image
down to a 6 color print you will have to make some channel adjustments.

by turning
off the Yellow, Magenta, Green, Dark Brown, and Grey channels you are
already down to 8 colors.

To reduce the number of
printable channels even further, you can combine the light blue and
dark blue channels together (there is not much blue in the image, combining
the 2 together will make no noticeable difference to the print).

To
do this select the "Dark Blue" channel, then go to the actions
list and click on the green EasyArt button "Add Light Blue to...
". This will add all of the information from the light blue channel
to the dark blue channel.

Tip:The number
of colors in this image can be reduced further by using the Light
flesh (which is almost white) as the white base. You can achieve
this by adding the information from the white base channel to
the light flesh channel, then print the light flesh first (with
light flesh ink) flash cure, then print the rest of the colors
in your design.

Note:
The "Add 2 color Flesh" routine works in exactly the same way
only it eliminates the "medium flesh" channel leaving only the
"light" and "dark" flesh channels to screen print.